SF Tidbits for 10/13/08
By John DeNardo |
Monday, October 13th, 2008 at
8:41 am
- Ridley Scott may direct an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. I find this interesting as Scott has said that sci-fi is dead. Twice. Everything has already been done, he says. Everything, apparently, except make more money from it.
- Slice of SciFi talks about whether science fiction movies inspire people.
- Books Under the Bridge asks What makes a good children’s story?
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Feedbooks: “Islands in the Air” by Lowell Howard Morrow (1929).
- The latest issue of DargonZine features fiction by Rena Deutsch, Liam Donahue, Pam Atchley and Mark Murray.
- @Manybooks:
- “John Jones’ Dollar” by Harry Stephen Keeler (1956).
- “The Sword and the Atopen” by Taylor H. Greenfield (1956).
- “Omega, the Man” by Lowell Howard Morrow (1933).
- Audio Fiction:
- @Clonepod: “Outside Chance” by Matthew Johnson, read by Leslie Ann Moore.
- @Beam Me Up: Part three of “Uxo Bomb Dog” by Elliot Fintushel , read by Paul Cole
- @Escape Pod: “Arties Aren’t Stupid” by Jeremiah Tolbert, read by Philippa Ballantine.
- @LibriVox:
- A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by Mark Nelson.
- At The Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by many readers.
- A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs, read by many readers.
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, read by Ruth Golding.
- More steampunk Star Wars from Björn Hurri:Steampunk Leia
- The Galaxy Express lists 7 Reasons Men Should Read Science Fiction Romance.
- Suvudu lists 10 SF and Fantasy Writers Who Should Be Nobel Prize Winners.
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- SF Tidbits for 9/7/08
- SF Tidbits for 9/19/08
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The 34 Writers on Gutenberg’s Science Fiction Bookshelf
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Thanks for the linkage, DeNardo-san!